TanzLuzern's Swan – a Different Story: without a bird in sight

TanzLuzern in Yabin Wang's Swan - A Different Story

Par Graham Watts, 10 mai 2023

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“the poignancy of his expressiveness, encapsulating the alienation and loneliness of the creature”

Critique faite à Luzerner Theater, Lucerne, le 5 mai 2023

Swan, a Different Story (Yabin Wang)

TanzLuzern

Jesse Wong, Direction

Sascha Thomsen, Costumes

Clemens Gorzella, Lumières

Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Yabin Wang, Danse

Tanaka Roki, Danse

Flavio Quisisana, Danse

Valeria Marangelli, Danse

Phoebe Jewitt, Danse

She Said: Female Choreographers find voice

Rym Kechacha, 13th April

The enduring power of the female voice in dance at ENB

****1

Genesis: Light from Darkness

Shelley Pinto-Duschinsky, 28th September

Life renews itself and DNA may take us beyond the human experiment and into the unknown.

****1

TanzLuzern in HOPE: outstanding double bill of new works

Graham Watts, 8th November

Two complementary new works for TanzLuzern, Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer and Phoebe Jewitt's White Rabbit, are striking and memorable additions to the repertoire.

*****

Beat Furrers Musiktheater Begehren am Lucerne Festival

Thomas Schacher, 1st September

Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike wird in Beat Furrers Musiktheaterstück auf eine allgemeine Ebene gehoben. Der Mann und die Frau finden keine gemeinsame Sprache, keinen Ort der Begegnung.

****1

Trois Forsythe inégaux par le Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin

Julie Jozwiak, 26th April

Si Trio et Quintett suscitent quelques interrogations, Enemy in the Figure est le clou de la soirée – mais il manque dans l'interprétation cette déflagration esthétique typique de Forsythe.

***11

L'énergie brute de Shechter II dans In the Brain aux Abbesses

Julie Jozwiak, 3rd April

La jeune troupe d'Hofesh Shechter montre tout son immense talent, dans un formidable élan de libération des pulsions et des êtres comme ils sont.

*****

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.